{"id":1672604,"date":"2022-10-04T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672604"},"modified":"2022-10-04T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:23:46","slug":"codify-roe-is-bidens-euphemism-for-democrats-atrocious-aim-unregulated-abortion-anywhere-anytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/codify-roe-is-bidens-euphemism-for-democrats-atrocious-aim-unregulated-abortion-anywhere-anytime\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Codify Roe\u2019 Is Biden\u2019s Euphemism For Democrats\u2019 Atrocious Aim: Unregulated Abortion Anywhere, Anytime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcodify-roe-is-bidens-euphemism-for-democrats-atrocious-aim-unregulated-abortion-anywhere-anytime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>With midterms just a month away, plain-speaking Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1576748620816203777\">took<\/a> to Twitter late Sunday to spread some malarkey about abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad used to say, \u2018Joey, don\u2019t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative,\u2019\u201d the master of Biden\u2019s Twitter domain said. \u201cAnd here\u2019s the deal: Democrats want to codify Roe. Republicans want a national ban on abortion. The choice is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>While some Democrats may want to codify the <em>Roe-Casey <\/em>law of abortion, and while some Republicans may desire a national ban on abortion, the current political scene tells a vastly different story \u2014 one in which Democrats demand an unfettered state constitutional right to abortion that far exceeds what <em>Roe <\/em>and <em>Casey <\/em>held that the U.S. Constitution guaranteed. Abortion on demand, at any time, for any reason, without informed consent or parental notification, without the safety and medical licensing regulations currently governing in most states, and paid for by taxpayers \u2014 this is the push presently underway in several states by mainstream Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan best exemplifies this reality, with Democrats in this Midwestern state pushing a two-prong approach to achieve that end goal. First, Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer petitioned the Michigan Supreme Court to declare that the state constitution includes a right to abortion. But as a fail-safe, Democrats put abortion on the ballot for this November\u2019s election, asking Michiganders to vote to amend the state constitution to expressly declare a right to so-called \u201creproductive freedom\u201d \u2014 an implicit acknowledgment that Michigan\u2019s constitution does not currently address abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed constitutional amendment would declare that \u201cevery individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care.\u201d The amendment would further prevent the state legislature from passing any law affecting the broadly defined \u201creproductive freedom,\u201d absent \u201ca compelling state interest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This \u201ccompelling state interest\u201d standard, also known as \u201cstrict scrutiny,\u201d far surpasses the standard that governed under <em>Roe-Casey<\/em>, but that reality is hard to convey in soundbites, given the legal nuance \u201cstandards of review\u201d inject into discussions of constitutional law. Constitutional scholar Elizabeth Kirk, who currently serves as a research associate at the Catholic University of America\u2019s Columbus School of Law and the director of the Center For Law and The Human Person, explained the significance of the \u201cstrict\u201d \u201ccompelling state interest\u201d standard of review when she <a href=\"https:\/\/kansascatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kirk-Testimony-on-VTB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">testified<\/a> in support of Kansas\u2019s Value Them Both constitutional amendment before the state\u2019s Senate Judiciary Committee and House Federal and State Affairs Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s testimony is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand the extreme abortion regime Democrats seek to install on Americans through a \u201cstrict scrutiny\u201d standard cemented in state constitutions by amendment or judicial intervention. And as Kirk detailed in her testimony, in states where the courts have discovered a so-called state constitutional right to abortion and applied that \u201cstrict scrutiny\u201d standard, courts have struck down laws that the public overwhelmingly supports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For instance, state courts in Alaska, Florida, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have all struck down legislation requiring parental notification or consent based on the respective states\u2019 constitutions. Iowa and Tennessee laws establishing waiting periods and\/or informed consent also failed in court based on state constitutional challenges. <\/p>\n<p>In Montana, the law requiring physicians to perform abortions succumbed to a constitutional challenge, and courts in Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New Jersey have compelled such funding based on their interpretation of the states\u2019 constitutions. In Kansas, notwithstanding the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans \u2014 and nearly all other countries in the world \u2014 oppose second- and third-trimester abortions, the Kansas Supreme Court held that the state legislature\u2019s ban on one type of second-trimester abortion, live dismemberment abortions (those in which human beings are killed by being ripped apart limb by limb), violated the state constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If a state constitutional right to abortion exists, as Michigan Democrats claim with Whitmer insisting so in her court filings, or if the Democrats\u2019 abortion amendment passes, then abortion regulations will be impossible to enact. This will be true no matter how widely supported those regulations are, such as late-term abortion bans, parental notification laws, and even health and safety standards. And it will be true no matter how many Michiganders support the proposed legislation and no matter how many legislators the people elect to advance their preferred policies on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats hide this reality by using the legalese of \u201ccompelling state interest\u201d and pushing dishonest soundbites, such as those Biden peddled in his recent tweet. And no wonder: The media will not expose their extreme views on abortion and, as the failure of the referendum on Kansas\u2019s Value Them Both constitutional amendment shows, the tactic works.<\/p>\n<p>But contrary to Biden\u2019s claim, Democrats are not seeking to \u201ccodify\u201d abortion law as it existed prior to <em>Dobbs <\/em>overturning <em>Roe <\/em>and <em>Casey. <\/em>Today\u2019s mainstream Democrats seek to cement an extreme regime of abortion on demand, for any reason, at any time, and paid for by taxpayers, in the states\u2019 constitutions.<\/p>\n<p>It is understandable then, that Biden doesn\u2019t want Democrats\u2019 abortion stance compared to the Almighty!\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Margot Cleveland is The Federalist&#8217;s senior legal correspondent. She is also a contributor to National Review Online, the Washington Examiner, Aleteia, and Townhall.com, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. <\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize\u2014the law school\u2019s highest honor. She later served for nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Cleveland is a former full-time university faculty member and now teaches as an adjunct from time to time. <\/p>\n<p>As a stay-at-home homeschooling mom of a young son with cystic fibrosis, Cleveland frequently writes on cultural issues related to parenting and special-needs children. Cleveland is on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland. The views expressed here are those of Cleveland in her private capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With midterms just a month away, plain-speaking Joe Biden took to Twitter late Sunday to spread some malarkey about abortion. \u201cMy dad used to say, \u2018Joey, don\u2019t compare me to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1672608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}